#auto_édition

Young Writers Dazzle Publisher (Mom and Dad) - NYTimes.com
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/01/us/young-writers-find-a-devoted-publisher-thanks-mom-and-dad.html?nl=todayshea

Over the past five years, print-on-demand technology and a growing number of self-publishing companies whose books can be sold online have inspired writers of all ages to bypass the traditional gatekeeping system for determining who could call himself a “published author.”

They include hundreds of children and teenagers who are self-publishing books each year — a growing corner of the book world that raises as many questions about parenting as publishing.

reMIND - Email Answers : Are there Financial Advantages to Self-Publishing ?
http://www.remindblog.com/2011/06/09/email-answers-are-there-financial-advantages-to-self-publishing

Jason Brubaker, auteur du webcomic Remind explique les raisons qui l’ont poussé à s’auto-éditer :

If you sell it yourself, you can make more of the profits on each book and in turn you can sell fewer books to break even. Publishers take on lots of new authors every year and only a fraction of those artist make any money at all. Sure there are the few that become very successful and make a good living but they are a special case. Plus you never see the years of work that these artists put into building their craft before getting picked up in the first place.

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I can’t tell you how many amazing artists I’ve talked to that have been published through big comic publishers who have never seen a penny for their books. One person I know said he sold over 10,000 copies and never saw a dime. I’m not saying that these comic publishers are bad but I AM saying that it’s someone else’s business. The publisher makes money first and then the creator makes money second. If you become the publisher then you make the money first.

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